Chapter 137 Birds of a feather flock together. Nothing in this world is difficult if you're willing to give up! ...
Ten days had passed since she arrived in Guangzhou. As soon as she disembarked, Qin Xiangxiang was pulled into a familiar embrace. She looked up and saw a handsome face. She couldn't help but let out a soft hum, but then felt a sweet warmth in her heart.
"You need to be more restrained; there are so many people here."
Little Fatty rushed forward and hugged his mother tightly, and the four of them embraced each other: "Mom, I missed you so much!"
Sui Sui: "Brother!"
Li Jianzhi helped Qin Xiangxiang with her luggage, "Do you have a lot of stuff? I called a delivery truck."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "It's alright, that's all my stuff. I'll take everything from over there to the factory. Our textile factory's transport team will come to pick them up later."
Li Jinling said, "Sister-in-law, I've gone back to the factory with the people from the factory! I want to tell Xue Haiyang about what happened these past few days! I want the art troupe to write a story about the Canton Fair!"
Qin Xiang clicked her tongue twice, thinking to herself, "You're just thinking about Xue Haiyang."
She parted ways with the people at the factory, boarded a transport vehicle, and the family of four returned home to their family compound.
In the car, Qin Xiangxiang teased Xiaopang, "Xiaopang, Mommy ate a lot of delicious food in Guangzhou, including boat congee, Moutai chicken, honey-glazed char siu, shrimp dumplings, and golden cake..."
Little Fatty screamed, "Wow!! My mom ate Moutai chicken!"
"Why do I have to go to school? I want to go to Guangzhou with my mom, just like my sister! I want to participate in the Canton Fair!"
Qin Xiangxiang said, "I brought back some delicious food, including chicken biscuits, mung bean cakes, peach shortbread... as well as tangerines and sweet oranges."
In addition to these items, Qin Xiangxiang also bought Lee Kum Kee soy sauce and oyster sauce, as well as other Guangzhou specialties.
Little Fatty exclaimed excitedly, "I want to eat a sweet orange!"
The family of four returned to their residential compound. Before they even went upstairs, a large group of people surrounded them, especially Sister Gao, who kept asking Qin Xiangxiang all sorts of questions about what she had seen and heard at the Canton Fair.
"I met so many foreigners, so many! More than ten thousand foreign buyers, from all over the world, including the US and Japan. Of course, they were all blond and blue-eyed, and they were even wearing suits!"
"We went to Yangcheng Restaurant for dinner. It has an elevator. Yes, we even got to eat Moutai chicken!"
"We've received orders, including 100,000 trial orders alone, and there may be a million production orders."
"My God! One million!"
"so much!"
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After returning home to the second floor, Qin Xiangxiang said she was going to take a shower, and the onlookers left one after another. Li Jianzhi then closed the front door of his house.
Qin Xiangxiang washed her hair first, then took a bath with her daughter Suisui. After the mother and daughter were both clean and refreshed, they changed into clean and refreshing clothes. Li Jianzhi prepared a hairdryer for her and dried her hair.
Qin Xiangxiang smiled and said, "Let's blow on Sui Sui first, so she doesn't catch a cold."
"I'll let you both blow it together."
Li Jianzhi, while drying her hair, instructed the chubby boy in the living room, "Cut the sweet oranges for Mom and your sister."
"I'll eat this first, then I'll cut some for Mom and my sister! Mom, this orange is so sweet!"
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After drying her hair, Qin Xiangxiang wanted to ask Sui Sui to eat some sweet oranges, but she didn't have much of an appetite and was eager to chat with Li Jianzhi.
“We’ve seen a lot this time. Let me show you my Canton Fair credentials and commemorative medals.”
"Guess what country our factory's first order came from? It was from Germany. We were overjoyed when they said they'd place a trial order of 5,000 pieces, and then they said they'd add another 100,000 pieces after confirming the quality! That was terrifying!"
"I was worried that we wouldn't sell many, but we received so many orders."
Li Jianzhi: "One million orders? Isn't that a lot of pressure?"
As Qin Xiang ate her sweet orange, she thought to herself that the pressure was immense. Taking orders was exhilarating, but fulfilling them was a nightmare. "It's simply a pipe dream for our factory with so few people to handle a million-dollar order. I told Manager Meng that's enough, we can't do it. He told me to try and take as many as I could, but then how to deliver them would be a problem."
"Comrade Li, what are your thoughts?"
Li Jianzhi: "Insightful opinion? I think it would be quite an achievement if you could complete half of the order volume and successfully finish 500,000 pieces. Don't put too much pressure on yourselves."
Hearing the man's words, if it were her mother, Zhou Aodong, her eyebrows and nose would definitely stand up proudly, and she would say: Who do you think you are? I will fight tooth and nail to get this million-dollar order!
However, the person who heard this was Qin Xiangxiang, who was not angry at all. Instead, she was overjoyed. Yes, yes, on the way back, Qin Xiangxiang thought the same thing.
“Li Jianzhi, we’ve been married for so many years, you know me, right?” Qin Xiangxiang raised her hand and poked the man’s chest. Now that she had a son and a daughter, she no longer pretended in front of Li Jianzhi. “I’ve never been demanding of myself.”
Li Jianzhi smiled to himself, thinking: I don't believe it.
This picky wife won't touch anything that doesn't suit her taste. Even if she can't secure a million-dollar order, she'll do her best within her capabilities.
Qin Xiangxiang whispered in his ear, "Nothing in this world is difficult if you are willing to give up."
"I'll say it again, life is full of disappointments." Li Jianzhi hugged and kissed his beloved wife. His wife had decided to give up at the beginning, but maybe she would have exceeded the million-dollar order target in the end. Who knows?
He's waiting to see the results.
Qin Xiangxiang said suspiciously, "I think there's something wrong with that statement. It seems like my luck has been pretty 'good' these past two years."
Li Jianzhi chuckled: "Then let's just let things take their course."
"That's true, good food, good drink, and good sleep are more important! Li Jianzhi, I brought back a silk printed bed sheet, and I also bought one for my mom and one for my mother-in-law. Find some time to have it sent to them by boat."
"It's the silk printed bed sheet from the factory of Director Chen from the silk weaving factory last time."
Li Jianzhi nodded, but when he saw the print on the silk bed sheet, his jaw almost dropped to the floor: "Think about it, what's printed on this?"
"Is this silk? Is it high-grade silk?"
Qin Xiangxiang: "That's right, it has a tractor printed on it! We'll keep the light-colored tractor and send the dark-colored one to my mom. We'll send the hoe print one to your mom, and Jinling picked a sickle print one."
"I think she got that sickle print for her wedding with Xue Haiyang, but I don't know what their relationship is like now."
Li Jianzhi: "..."
His lips twitched: "Tractors? Sickles? Hoes printed on this silk bed sheet?"
"yes!"
Li Jianzhi was truly impressed. Printing tractors on silk? That was definitely not "bourgeois" at all. Fortunately, it was just a bed sheet and not a silk garment with tractor prints.
Li Jianzhi: "I simply cannot imagine what clothes would look like if this tractor-print silk were made. If you wore tractor-print silk pajamas... actually, it wouldn't be bad."
Qin Xiangxiang: "???"
Li Jianzhi: "This is called a new trend of Chinese fashion! No high-ranking officials or nobles would have worn tractor-print pajamas before. Wife, you have such good taste."
Qin Xiangxiang: "???!!! Li Jianzhi, I think you're asking for a beating!"
Li Jianzhi: "Let's test if this tractor-shaped bed sheet is any good!"
Despite the million-dollar order piled up on her head, Qin Xiangxiang slept very well. She even tried out the tractor-printed bed sheet with her strong husband to see how exciting it was. However, she had already come to terms with it, while the people at Feiyan Textile Factory were still not.
Yang Zhixia, Li Jinling, Master Li, and the others were all as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Assistant He said, "Factory Manager, we need to recruit people!"
Even more bizarre is Gao Rong on the first floor. Gao Rong found out she was pregnant and was preparing to be transferred to an easier position for a while. She heard that the textile factory had received a million-dollar order at the Canton Fair, and she cried!
"Director Qin, I really got pregnant at the worst possible time. The factory needs me most, but I can't contribute my efforts. I even wanted to work overtime to help make T-shirts..."
Qin Xiangxiang quickly said, "Gao Rong, it's most important for you to take good care of yourself during your pregnancy."
Gao Rong: "Factory manager, let's take on even more orders next year after I have my baby!"
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
It's terrifying; when top-notch people put in their effort, it's frightening.
Arriving at Feiyan Textile Factory by car, Qin Xiangxiang looked at the bustling operation before her and felt as if she had become Zhu Ziqing, silently lamenting in her heart: "Their hard work is all for them, I have nothing."
Sitting in the factory director's office, Qin Xiangxiang received a phone call from Director Liao Shoucheng.
"Director Liao, hello, is there anything I can help you with?"
Factory Director Liao coughed and said, "It's nothing really, Factory Director Qin. You're still young, so I just want to say a few words to you."
"Your factory has received orders worth millions. I'm sure you're under a lot of pressure right now. Are you ready to work hard and make a big splash? I know you young people all have the drive to strive."
"However... our ancestors also said something long ago: 'The tallest tree in the forest will be felled by the wind.' Being too outstanding is not good either."
"You're doing too well. Doesn't that make everyone else look incompetent? That's not good."
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The factory director called to remind Qin Xiangxiang that it's good to be ambitious and hardworking, but there's also the possibility that someone might secretly trip her up and prevent her from doing things well.
Factory Director Liao was worried that Qin Xiangxiang was being too enthusiastic and might be discouraged, since he could sense that this young female factory director was a person with ideas and ambitions.
When he was young, Director Liao was a very ambitious person. However, now, after experiencing many things, he feels that "no merit or demerit" is good enough, just like his name, Liao Shoucheng.
Qin Xiangxiang: "Okay, I understand. Thank you for reminding me, Director Liao."
Qin Xiangxiang understood what Factory Director Liao meant and guessed that Factory Director Liao might have learned some news, or that someone was planning to trip up their factory so that they could not complete the orders.
However, Qin Xiangxiang wasn't worried at all. She thought to herself, if their little island's Feiyan Textile Factory could really produce a million orders, what kind of dreadful workshop would their factory be?
The donkeys in the production team are exhausted.
She set a lower goal than Li Jianzhi, thinking that it would be quite good if Feiyan Textile Factory could complete two or three hundred thousand pieces. Hehe, nothing is difficult in this world as long as you are willing to give up!
Feiyan Textile Factory received a trial order of 100,000 units, with a follow-up order of one million units. This allowed them to receive a portion of foreign exchange in advance, which they could use to purchase the raw materials needed for the orders.
Their factory has more raw cotton and chemical fiber materials, which is actually a good thing. Even if someone sabotages them and they can't fulfill their foreign trade orders, the raw cotton and chemical fiber materials are still there!
Foreigners have high standards, but Chinese people now have very low standards for clothing. Even a poorly made T-shirt is considered a good piece of clothing in China. It's better than wearing a "fertilizer bag," right?
This is heartbreaking.
Hearing what Director Liao said, Qin Xiangxiang felt much more at ease. She was waiting for someone to cause trouble, hoping that she could successfully shift the blame. She would complete as many foreign trade orders as possible, and as for the so-called "defective products"... we would just switch from export to domestic sales!
Making T-shirts accessible to everyone in the country is also a benefit to the masses.
Qin Xiang thought to himself: Director Liao, I'm no different from you at heart!
They're all salted fish.
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